السلطات الكندية ترحل سوداني اغتصب مسنه في ال 91 من عمرها

Quote: Man who sexually assaulted senior sentenced CALGARY (CP) - A nursing aide who sexually assaulted a 91-year-old in a seniors home was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for an act the judge called a "despicable crime." Rex Ongee Okumu, 41, was convicted in August of sexual assault on the woman, who suffers from dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Justice Scott Brooker of Court of Queen's Bench agreed with the Crown that Okumu's actions constituted a serious sexual assault. "The victim was completely at Mr. Okumu's mercy," Brooker told court during his sentencing. "She could not escape or otherwise protect herself from the sexual assault." During a trial last summer, a nursing assistant testified that she found Okumu, his pants and underwear around his ankles, bent over the woman in a compromising position. Okumu testified he was only changing the woman's diaper at the northwest Calgary nursing home in July 2004. The judge said an aggravating factor was that Okumu was an intelligent, educated individual who should have known better, but yielded to his "base instincts." Brooker said the prison sentence was intended to denounce Okumu's conduct and provide a significant deterrent to anyone contemplating "such a despicable crime." Prosecutor Sheena Cunningham had been asking for a term of up to six years, while defence lawyer Mitch Stephensen had suggested a conditional sentence was warranted because Okumu was unlikely to reoffend. Although the victim's family remained silent throughout the case, a seniors rights group that closely monitored the trial said it was relieved at Okumu's five-year sentence. "We are extremely gratif ied that there is finally a strong sentence, that another predator is behind bars," said Ruth Maria Adria of the Elder Advocates of Alberta Society. "There was finally recognition in the court that there needs to be a deterrent and that these people are very vulnerable and that this is not acceptable in our society." Adria said the case demonstrates the need for mandatory video surveillance in seniors care facilities, much like cameras already in day cares. "We have to provide protection. Health providers have a duty of care to provide reasonable safety to their clients and obviously in this instance, the duty of care was seriously breached."

(عدل بواسطة الامين موسى البشاري on 11-25-2009, 12:17 PM)